[Tagging] Fwd: Lifecycle of rail

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 9, 2022, 21:52 by natfoot at gmail.com:

> 2.
> additionally railway=rail is a description of the rail and not a
> description of the use and does bind with this assertion of the use of
> a line for construction.
>
> My point of view is if the rail is or looks to be "active" it is to be
> labeled rail just like the wiki describes no matter the use or the
> official announcement. Even if the line is not yet taking passengers
> or moving cargo.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Drail
>
No, that is https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Ddisused
And "is it used at all" is on the ground situation.

> By labeling it this way we state with the map data the correct
> attributes of the rail on the ground. If the description of
> railway=rail are not ture and are about the use of the rail line then
> this will need to change.
>
ture? (sorry, I sometimes make typos but here I am confused by
meaning)

> railway=construction is a use of the line if it is already intact
> passable or in testing. we could in turn add service=construction for
> the use of the line until officially active for whatever the
> officially announced use is.
> Additionally a life cycle prefix which is beyond construction for
> places like this where a rail line is intact and passible but is not
> active for service to the public as of yet could also resolve this
> issue.
>
Note that railway tagging is not using prefixes for disused/under construction
ones.

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